The need to face up to climate change denial will remain a major challenge. The now famous ‘I brought the graph’ exchange between Brian Cox and Malcolm Roberts in Australia comes at a time when ‘Clexit’ is being well funded. Clexit is the aim of deniers not to ratify Paris.
There is Rejection of experts spreads from Brexit to climate change with ‘Clexit’
Guardian: Clexit calls for withdrawal from climate treaties, rejects the conclusions of 97% of climate science experts and 95% of economics experts. Brexit support and climate denial have many similarities. Many Brexit Leave campaign leaders also deny the dangers of human-caused climate change.
Guardian ‘I brought the graph’ The celebrity physicist Brian Cox came prepared to the ABC’s Q&A on Monday night with graphs, ready to counter claims by his co-panellist, the climate denier and Australian senator-elect Malcolm Roberts.
Roberts, one of four senators elected from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, took the first opportunity to espouse long-refuted climate-denialist claims, including that warming stopped more than 20 years ago, starting the so-called “hiatus” or “pause”.